Under the jaguar sun

Italo Calvino

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In these three witty and fantastical stories, Italo Calvino explores the sensory aptitudes of the body in taste, hearing and smell.

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Publish Date: 17/04/2025

Description

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun – into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest ? The solar energy coursed along dense networks of blood and chlorophyll; I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibres that absorb the sun

Additional information

Weight 73 g
Dimensions 180 × 109 × 7 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

128

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

853.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K